Richard, Even though I am largely a Mac user, my students and my labs are largely PC and hence I need ways to get around being locked out of allowing downloads and installations of demos etc.
U3 *should* let me do that, right? Judy On Mon, 14 May 2007, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Judy Perry wrote: > > So, U3 drives so that I can have students d/o demo's/shareware software > > not officially honkey-dorey by our IT folks (which is basically > > everything that is NOT MS Office...). > > > > Am I mistaken? Isn't that THE BIG THING about the U3 drives? That you > > can run apps off them? > > For as long as I've been working with Rev, it's been doing a great job > of enabling delivery of portable apps on any drive. > > U3 is just a clever way of using a Windows feature to launch a > proprietary launcher. When a locked volume is mounted on Windows, the > OS will look for an autorun.inf file, and if present will look for the > path to an app specified in that file and launch it if found. > > U3 drives use this by being partitioned, with one partition being > flagged as "read only" so the OS will look for the autorun.inf file, > which on U3 drives points to the proprietary launcher. > > Because it's dependent on a feature found only in Windows, the benefits > of U3's dual-partitioned drives are only available on one OS -- Mac and > Linux don't support anything like autorun (the last time Apple > experimented with anything like it was more than a decade ago, and it > was found to be a popular way to spread viruses so they discontinued the > practice and aren't likely to resume it). > > So while U3 is Windows-only, all flash drives can be used on all OSes, > and Rev can deliver portable apps to run on any of 'em. > > While we've heard about the large numbers of U3-compliant drives, > remember that those still represent a minority of all flash drives -- > your choice for non-U3 drives is vast, and generally cheaper than U3 > drives because they're cheaper to manufacture. > > So if portability is your goal, as a Rev developer you can use any flash > drive on the market. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Managing Editor, revJournal > _______________________________________________________ > Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution